João Carlos Martins holds a Ph.D in Sociology (2015) by Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Has a master in urban Anthropology (2009) by ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Degree in Sociology (20004) by Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Since 2017 developed individual and collective academic papers and project reports submissions. Has 304 citations (h-index 7 and i10-index 4) on Google Scholar, and a total of 32 publications: 14 articles, all of them in open access (9 of them indexed in Scopus,), Edited a Book on IGI Global, 9 Book chapters (1 edited in IGI Global and 1 in Routledge), 1 newspaper article, 3 Project reports and 1 working paper. I organized 45 events as conference chair (3), workshop coordinator (3) and several fieldwork visits to international projects, Ph.D., and Master students (16) and others. I developed 32 communications on seminars, workshops, conferences, and other dissemination events and was a revisor for 4 articles. Is an associate Member of CICS.NOVA, Center for Interdisciplinary Social Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon and CinTurs, Research Center for Tourism Sustainability and Wellbeing at the University of the Algarve (Portugal). Today is an Assistant Professor in Universidade do Algarve. Between 2021 and 2022 was Research Fellow at the FCT project “ArtCitizenship: young people and the arts of Citizenship: activism, participation and creative practices” with the responsibility of analyzing all the data gathered, promote dissemination and communication practices in workshops and the organization of the final conference, as well as the submission of international peer reviewed articles. Was a research fellow at the ICS, between 2018 and 2020, working in the Horizon 2020 ROCK project, being responsible for its territorial diagnosis and the analysis of cultural heritage led-urban regeneration processes. It contacted with a multiplicity of Public Officials (in the areas of Cultural Heritage and Social Assistance) as well as private agents (restaurants, art galleries, cultural associations), and promotion of co-participation with Living Labs methodologies. Was a Research Fellow on the BEST MED project (2020-2021) funded by INTERREG program under the Grant Number: 5987, on the areas of Cultural Heritage, Urban Tourism, Sustainable Development, Governance and Participation, Auscultation and Stakeholders Engagement. It had responsibilities on research about Cultural Routes and Stakeholders Participation, using Policy Learning Seminars, Focus Groups, Living Labs and Fam Trips. It had also responsibilities on international partners engagement and compliance. In 2017-2018 was a Researcher on Social Intervention on Rede Res do Chao Marvila [CML BIP/ZIP funded project nº10], located on a Social Housing Neighborhood of Eastern Lisbon. Became a fieldwork coordinator of community intervention and citizen participation in social housing areas. In 2015-2018, with SAFE!N Social Intervention project [CML BIP/ZIP funded project nº95], was a scientific advisor addressing the recent mass transformation of a traditional Lisbon¿s nightlife neighborhood (Cais do Sodre). This field work, on organizing the projects sessions and meetings, as well as a sociological data research crossed a multiplicity of players: academics, social workers on public health, night users, workers and nightlife businessmen, residents, local social movements, and municipal officials towards a safe night certification. Actual scientific interests are around urban transformation, particularly on multidimensional questions around Tourism, Participation, Leisure, Cultural Heritage; Creative Cities; Knowledge Cities and Contemporary societies. Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Sociology, Anthropology and Economic, Cultural and Social Geography with emphasis on Cultural and Urban Studies.